Here are some images of the International Space Station
passing across the sky.

The first group were taken on the morning of September 29, 2011.
The event was featured on 106 Jack FM.Click here for a recording of the interview.

All these images are 15-second exposures.

They are followed by two images taken on the evening of August 12, 2013.

Click on any of the images for larger versions.

The International Space Station was due to make a pass which would take it almost directly overhead shortly after 6am.

Although the Sun wasn't up, the sky had started to get light, though the brighter stars were still visible.

Whilst waiting for the ISS, I took this shot of the constellation of Orion.

If
you look below the 3 stars that form Orion's belt, you can make out the
"sword" hanging from the belt, which includes the Orion Nebula - a huge
cloud of interstellar gas where we have detected new stars forming.

The bright star to the lower left of the image is Sirius, the brightest star in the sky (apart from the Sun of course!)

At 6:07, the International Space Station became visible, appearing as a bright dot climbing into the sky.